Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a Was it David Cohen’ Idea?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We’re featuring some of the amazing events that will be held across our portfolio in the months ahead. Outreach’s Unleash 2023 : Seattle, October 3-5 This three-day experience will feel like “a sales kick off meets personal excellence retreat meets president’s club.”

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Portfolio Technical Review San Francisco Seattle 81

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Most investors like the idea of adding venture investments to “diversity their portfolio,” and create great up-side potential.

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Angel Investor Cram Down Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The critical issues to analyze under the sustainable social impact include community relations, tenant satisfaction and human capital management. The plan can then be used in making future business and investment decisions, investment appraisals and portfolio strategy.

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Green California Government Valuation 175

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

You need to say “no” faster to things you know you’re not going to fund based on fit, focus, geography, quality of concept, conflicts with portfolio. Be the center of your knowledge space or geographic community. What I’m saying is that you can’t spend all of your time in email working your inbox.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2025

Firgun is all about genuinely feeling and expressing happiness, pride, or admiration for members of our community’s accomplishments, good fortune and wins. There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Thank you for reading. Keep on creating!

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Israel Stealth Taiwan ChatGPT 103

Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2023

As a CEO or board director of a community bank, you have a personal stake in improving the effectiveness of your board. Enhancing decision-making, strategic planning, and governance practices within your board can directly contribute to the success of your bank in serving customers and making a positive impact on the community you serve.

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Community Software Review Technical Review Government 74

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

I believe in serving the art community and I consistently devote my time to interact with the aspiring artists through deviantART, chat-rooms and streaming my art on Livestream regularly. Kai Lim: I am also known by my handle UkiTakuMuki within the online art community.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings. Chad Pytel at thoughtbot, many of the NextView portfolio companies, tens of thousands of developers, and I are already believers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I called a bunch of portfolio companies and asked them to check it out. ” I loved the IM’ing with the crowd and the sense of community. And even more pertinent to you specifically at your startup … The number of companies I talk to (or even portfolio companies) who are dismissive of their competitors is enormous.

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Startup Guerilla Silicon Valley Portfolio 313

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Shopify Experts marketplace operates with the Shopify Partner program — the actual site and community management system. A Strong Portfolio of Your Previous Work After getting accepted in the Shopify Experts Marketplace, you will have a page to list your portfolio items, experiences, locations, and rates.

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Curation Portfolio eCommerce Programming 140

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our portfolio and investment activity this year reflects the importance of technology and “digitization of everything” spurred on by Covid-19. And existing portfolio companies raised the most money in the history of our fund, with over $300m in follow-on funding rounds. That’s another huge win for technology and science. .

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Technical Review Portfolio Founder Finance 148

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Building a great product. We want to talk to you!

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Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. It will take some time to prove out this hypothesis, but the data above suggests it may be the case.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. The accelerator provides equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of EdTech experts, and more. Commercial and partnerships. Below are the Amazon and AWS outreach programs in no particular order.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Much has been written about the challenges rural communities face in accessing quality care, and the gap between rural and urban healthcare access only widens beyond primary care. . The supply vs demand mismatch is further exacerbated by existing supply concentration in certain geographies (often big cities).

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

Additionally, the rise of NFTs (non-fungible tokens), which reached $23 billion in sales in 2021 , acted as a gateway drug for faster adoption of crypto-gaming, virtual goods trading and strong community engagement online. We’ve made several investments in this space.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Slack, Jet.com, FlatIron Health, Kobalt Music Group and many others. Typically invest in series C and above, notable portfolio companies include Stripe, Lyft, Robinhood, UI Path, Snap, Duolingo and many more household names. The website lists a handful of portfolio companies.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

There will be people, especially from the crypto community, that disagree with us on this one. On the crypto-side we also see gaming leading the way with play-to-earn games such as our portfolio company Rebelbots , platforms like Manticore Games or Sandbox. Community driven Economies. Gaming + web3/NFTs. That’s insane.

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Startup Community Social Network Portfolio 187

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 15, 2014

I have no idea who FAKEGRIMLOCK but I still know it is a pretty normal and thoughtful person through seeing his or her comments through the years and the fact that the community interacts with him as a “regular.” At its best apps like Secret or Whisper can be a place where people can reach out to the community for support.

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Technical Review Reputation Naming Internet 329

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I will quote one portfolio company CEO who said about his office manager, “Mark, this is the most important hire we made last year. We stayed in the middle of January in a “hotel&# that turned not to have showers in the room – you had to walk down the hall to a community shower. I can’t make this stuff up!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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San Francisco Jordan Los Angeles Technical Review 150

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 30, 2025

In the wake of the SVB collapse, accessing funding has become more complicated; even companies with lucrative VC money have struggled, with some firms seeing as much as 60% of their portfolio investments fold. Silicon Valley’s bro culture may be the dominant ethos in tech, but that doesnt mean its the right culture for everyone.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley Startup 78

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2019

One of the biggest mistakes a novice investor can make is having an undiversified portfolio. Whether you have a friend who is an expert on technology trends, green energy or minerals, an investment club can help a portfolio cover its bases in investments. More Heads Are Better Than One. Low $$ Barrier to Entry.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The best recommendations are going to come from your community as this is a true ‘word of mouth’ network. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. At Homebrew, we keep a list of coaches that work well with startups and then try to help match against need and personality type. Boom is building a supersonic aircraft. No, seriously, they are.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Startup Matching 162

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2020

Every business will benefit from this factor of Documentation Management Solution(DMS) because they are bound to legal norms and enterprise affiliation to business communities/societies. His experience has enabled multinational businesses around the globe to diversify their project portfolio. Follow his work here.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. ” That always stuck with me. That seems very Brad to me.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Utilize a mix of traditional and digital marketing techniques, such as: Website and SEO : Create a professional website showcasing your services, portfolio, and customer testimonials. Local Advertising : Advertise in local newspapers, magazines, and community bulletin boards.

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Software Review United States Social Media Advertising 158

Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

Web content: Personal and company blogs, feeds, community bulletins. Build a portfolio. Whichever writing category you choose, you need to build a relevant portfolio. A few easy to manage portfolio platforms are Contently , Journo , and Clippings.me. Join a writing community and look for a mentor.

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Technical Review Portfolio Social Media Silicon Valley 126

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

Elizabeth: An investment in a NAWBO membership provides a portfolio of benefits that propel business growth and fuel personal and professional development. Our role within the international women business owner community continues to reach new corners of the world. NAWBO offers many benefits at both the national and local levels.

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Founder Chicago LLC Leadership 158

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Qualification #1: You know how to do something specific that is valuable and needed often in pursuing a deal or servicing the portfolio. Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. Some other ‘birds of a feather’ community you’ve cultivated.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

Skillshare is an online learning community, with an emphasis on creative fields, such as art, photography, fashion, lifestyle, film, design, etc. Some of the best practitioners in their fields hold community workshops, which are in the form of videos. Skillshare.

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Harvest Cloud Video Web 165

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Get involved in your community. If you can, help organize and become a leader in your community (great entrepreneurial ecosystems are inclusive and have many leaders). You’ll not only be helping your community, you’ll be making a name for yourself. Get out there and participate. Get involved in companies.

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Venture Capital Seed Stage Angel Groups Portfolio 103

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Dry Carpet Services for Office Spaces Beyond the standard dry carpet services from the Water Damage Specialist , consider extending your portfolio to offer specialized services for locations with specific requirements such as water-damaged carpets.

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Balance Sheet Technical Review Business Model Business Plan 145

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As entrepreneurs with a passion for helping others, they’ve built a company that is vastly accelerating the ability to deliver healthcare to the most needy global communities. ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits. TSM: The both of you and your company are impressive.

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Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 125

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Business owners and entrepreneurs are unique positions for an investor’s point of view because they don’t have the security of a large salary from a big company from which they can slowly build up an extensive portfolio of investments over their career.

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